Recycling

There are two ways that residents and visitors to the Tamworth region can recycle everyday household containers and packaging. The first is the kerbside collection service provided by Council. Every property in the Tamworth region that has a kerbside garbage collection service also has access to kerbside recycling collection. Refer to Collection Services for details of what is suitable for the kerbside recycling service. The second recycling opportunity is for those people who do not have access to a kerbside recycling service or for items that will not fit in the recycling wheelie bin. The majority of Council's waste management facilities have skip bins to deposit suitable household of recyclable items. At the Tamworth Waste Management Facility, these bins are provided by Challenge Recycling Services and are on the left hand side of the road at the entrance to the waste facility. Recycling household containers and packaging is a great way to start. Have a look at Council's new Waste Services Guide for more information.

Council provides opportunities to extend recycling to other items around the home or business such as mobile phones and printer, fax and photocopier ink and toner cartridges.

Tamworth Regional Council is a regional leader in recycling initiatives with successful programs such as the Event Recycling Campaign that runs during Country Music Festival in January each year and the Council Recycling Trailer, which is available for hire to help with recycling at events.

Traditionally, the focus of recycling has been on household items like paper and bottles but there is a vast array of other material that is accepted for recycling at waste management facilities, which ranges from used motor oil to clean brick and tile.

Tamworth Regional Council is proudly able to reprocess garden organics, clean concrete and clean brick and tile onsite. The items that Council cannot recycle on site such as tyres and batteries are stockpiled for other facilities to reprocess.

Council supports MobileMuster, the mobile phone official recycling program, which was initiated in 1999 to prevent mobile phones accumulating in landfill. There are several locations, including Council offices, across the region that are drop off points for MobileMuster.

Tamworth Regional Council participates in the 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' program, which collects printer, fax and photocopier ink and toner cartridges for recycling. There are several locations, including Council offices, across the region that are drop off points for printer and toner cartridges.